There is feverish debate about this local girl from the biggest little town in Australia, Mullumbimby. The girl who grew up in a mud hut in the back of Bourke is better known back home for losing her identity instead of her American success story.

She left us behind a long time ago

The blonde rapper, who has drawn attention for her caucasian appearance in a stereotypically African-American genre, has broken the mould to become a crazy-popular hip hop artist in the U.S. The artist formerly known as Amethyst Amelia Kelly left Australia just short of the ripe age of 16, telling her parents she was "going on holiday." She headed to Miami, Florida, and called her parents to say she wasn't coming home.

"I was drawn to America because I felt like an outsider in my own country, I was in love with hip hop, and America is the birthplace of that, so I figured the closer I was to the music, the happier I'd be. I was right," she said in her biography.

Azalea started to make an impact on the U.S. music scene in 2011 when she uploaded videos on YouTube of her freestyling. The videos got a lot of traction — especially a song titled "Pu$$y" — and her blossoming American rap career began.

Fast forward three years and she was collaborating with some of the world's best rappers and topping U.S. Billboard charts. She is the only artist, besides The Beatles, to have position one and two simultaneously with her two first Billboard Hot 100 hits.

So by all accounts, Azalea has killed it. Big time. But whether it is the infamous Australian "tall-poppy" syndrome or the fact locals don't relate to the girl who raps with a Southern twang, we killed her back. As the world was praising this girl-made-good from country Australia, we were taking her down.

Azalea isn't doing Aussie hip hop right

Some Australians seem to think Azalea should be following the Australian scene, despite the fact this has never been her career dream. The Guardian called her the "least important thing to happen to Australian hip hop." It said she has nothing on "innovative" local offerings such as Bliss N Eso or Illy who have their "feet planted firmly on the bedrock of hip hop," and that she was so detached from her roots she couldn't possibly even be remotely linked to her homeland.

"It depends what kind of rapper you are and what you are trying to do, if you feel if you can prosper in Australia. There's a glass ceiling in Australia like the UK and it is a bit lower, as hip hop isn't as popular as other kinds of music. I wanted to be up there with the people I saw in the videos on MTV. I wanted to be in that calibre and I didn't see that calibre of artists in my country," she said on a breakfast radio show in 2013.

Her idols were TLC and Tupac, and that ain't a sound you are gonna find or have the chance to grow Down Under.

She doesn't talk about Australian things enough

“One critic was like, ‘Why didn’t you talk about more Australian things?’ I don’t understand why I’m supposed to write a song about living in the Outback and riding a kangaroo to be authentic,” she said.

Instead, she writes about Australia as an Australian living abroad: "We spend our winters in the summer of Australia, eating crumpets with the sailors, on acres without the neighbours."

I can tell by her accent that Iggy Azalea is from the Atlanta part of Australia.
— Pauly Casillas (@PaulyPeligroso) June 3, 2014

Iggy Azella changed her life so much that she changed her accent to American, what was wrong with sounding like toadie from neighbours?
— Majestic (@Majestic) October 13, 2013

"I lived in the South for five years; you pick up things from your surroundings and teachers. The people who taught me to rap are all from the South and so was the music I had listened to as a teen," Azalea told the Pop Manifesto.